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Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Eventually it just got really crazy. Less and less oxygen in the apartment.

Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.